Improvement in brushes



UNITED t STATES PATENT @EFICE HENRY LUMBARD, 0E CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

|MPRovEMENT IN BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,075, dated June 19, 1877 application tiled March 24, 1877.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LUMBARD, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedv a new and useful Improvement in Bristle-Brushes; ot' which the following is a specification:

TheY present invention relates to an improved mode of holding bristles in {iat-brushes of some considerable thickness. There is by present modes of fastening bristles in such brushes much difculty in the shedding of bristles. I remedy this difficulty by the employment ofa division-strip in the band, which separates the bristles in two sections, so that a brush of double thickness will hold the parts as firmly as they are now held' in the thin brush.

lu the drawings, Figure l is a view of the dat side of my improved brush complete for use. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal transverse section ot' Fig. l on line v Fig. 3 isan end elevation of the brush-band and metal partingstrip, the handle being removed more clearly to show these parts.

B represents the ordinary fel-rule or band which contains the bristles ofthe brush; and inthe present mode of making brushes the bristles are put in one end of the ferrule and the handleA in the other end, the band at one end being riveted through the bristles, and at the other end riveted through the handle; but, as bristlesget loose by this means of fastening', I place in the band, centrally and longitudinally, a metal partition, D, whose ends are fastened to the i'errule or band B by solder or other suitable means, so as to divide the bristles in sections. This partition is of about Ythe same width ot' the i'errule or band B, and, to insert the handle in the ferrule, aslot is out centrally and longitudinally in its end, so as to pass onto the partition D. When the two-part ferrule or band B D is, in the ordinary manner, filled with bristles, rivets -n are put through all the parts and headed Iirxnly down, so as to compress the bristles as much as possible by this means. The slotted handle A is then inserted in the t'errule or band B, as shown in Figs. l and 2, and `rivets put through it, the band B, and partition D, and closely headed down. The partition not only holds the bristles, but strengthens the band B, and makes the brush, in all respects, a better article ot' manufacture, and the bristles will not get loose at the edges.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- Theelongated metal band B, which is con-I structed to hold the bristles at one end and receive the handleA at the other end, the handle and bristles both beinginserted in the band,in combination with a partitionplate,D, soldered fast to the band, and extended into a slot in the handle and into the bristles, and the handle and bristles being secured by rivets, as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY LUMBARD.

Witnesses:

G. L. GIIAPIN, O. H. ADIX. 

